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Portable AI
AI, LLMs and generative models have now been known and used by a majority of the population, technical or not. But they’re mostly used from your desktop or your mobile phone. I’m now seeing a growing proposition of portable AI, new form factors that use or fit within the AI eco-system. Commercial offering One of the first I got to know is the AI pin from Humane. I stumbled upon it through this TEDx video: Imran Chaudhri: The disappearing computer — and a world where you can take AI everywhere | TED Talkand immediately went to the web site and signed-in to get notified of any release.
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Vision OS for an existing app
Introduction As a simple intro into visionOS, I used the most simple app I have, AWG Convert, and set-up to add native support for visionOS to it. I added an “Apple Vision” destination to my project, launched the app in the simulator and started to tweak the code to make it look slightly better in the Vision Pro. Just the basics here, not really taking advantage of Spatial Computing, baby steps.
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Interface orientation in visionOS
Introduction Yesterday, during the super interesting Unwrap Live 2024 stream on visionOS from Paul Hudson, I asked the question on whether it was possible to have your visionOS start in “portrait mode”. The reason I asked is because I’m extending a small utility app (AWG Convert) that I’ve coded on the iPhone to have native support for the Vision Pro. There is no iPad version (for now), and the iPhone version only supports portrait orientation.
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Obsidian on Multiple Devices
As I’m getting more serious about using Obsidian as my primary note taking application, having the content available on multiple devices becomes critical. Living in the Apple eco-system, I had two options: Obsidian sync or iCloud. I went for the second option. And for those concerned with privacy, Apple now supports end-to-end encryption using your own keys for your iCloud storage with the Advanced Data Protection option. Setting up Obsidian Sync with iCloud Drive is a good article on the process of setting up sync.
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The Wait is Over
Or so I thought… Last week, I had received a shipping notification for my Rift DK2, indicating a delivery for this Monday. So I spent a bit of the week-end preparing a PC to use with it. It’s a powerful desktop system that I built a bit less than 2 years ago, to work on GWT projects (because building GWT projects can take a long time). When I started with that idea, the goal was to have a fast machine for that task, while keeping the budget low.
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Virtual Insanity
As about 40.000 people on the planet, I’m patiently waiting for my Oculus Rift DK2 to arrive. Although I’m impatient to get it, I’m not going insane, a trait that some members on the Oculus dev forums or subreddit are clearly exhibiting. Am I annoyed ? Slightly. Am I mad at Oculus ? Definitely no (though if I ever run into Palmer Luckey I’ll only buy him regular juice and not that expensive organic cranberry apple juice).
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Welcome (again)
I’ll confess, focus is not my forte! I tend to be interested by a lot of different topics, even more so when it comes to technical and scientific ones. Over the last few years, pumped up by the then latest and greatest idea I just had, I’ve started several blogs. I followed-up with a couple of posts and then swamped by work or some other real-life “obligation”, I let it fall into oblivion, piling up in some dead internet sites landfill, waiting for the DNS registration to expire.
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